American - Author | February 9, 1944 -
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
Alice Walker
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I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
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On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
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I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
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It is important to remember yourself.
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We should not look down on our first ancestors.
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Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
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What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
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I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
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At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.
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Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.
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